With FaceTime insistent on remaining an Apple proprietary application, this leaves Windows and Android users incapable of contacting users on FaceTime. I propose Microsoft devise a gateway to access FaceTime via Skype.

FaceTime appears popular among a large proportion of mobile device users, it seems a shame to deprive those users access to calling myself or vice versa. As giants in technology, it shows a complete lack of maturity to not tie your technologies together to gain the maximum accessibility for your customers, this is a hindrance which drives an animosity between your customers.

I have no interest in becoming an Apple customer because of their poor attitude to sharing, they should not be allowed to harness open source video codecs for their own use via a badly designed session initiation application which only talks to itself.

Since the Apple developers are obviously not skilled enough or too lazy to make this happen, I believe it's time that other giants such as yourself circumvent them.

I suggest you create a huge gateway running as many virtual machines as necessary to generate however many FaceTime accounts to act as a gateway when any Skype users wishes to communicate with a FaceTime user... If Apple CBA to be decent... Step up to the plate and show the world that Microsoft are the best and will not take this poor attitude. Apple should be providing access for their customers to reach the world, and why should anyone else miss out on having a conversation on a video communication medium which is just a bunch of numbers needing conversion, this development goes completely against the ethos of communications in general. Please sort this out!

Hello. I have a handicap, I'm deaf. For this reason, I find very useful the subtitles in real time while I'm doing a videoconference with a partner in Skype. Skype is the only one service that works fine the subtitle in real time, while others (google, zoom, etc...) don't think to offer service to people like me (deaf handicap). I can even do calls through Skype to a telephon number. Thank you for your effort and thinking about us.
But I find a problem, when someone calls me, I can not redirect the call to skype to use the subtitles. When I try to buy a new number phone so can someone call directly me through skype, I can't see my country, Spain. Why? Please, offer that all country posible or do not restrict only for those country (like France).

Ah! And of course, make please available the possibility to realize an emergency call trough skype. It could help a lot for deaf people, there is any other service.

I hope that you can improve the service for people like me. Thank you.